Wrist watch guard



Nov. 19, 1963 JUST 3,111,247

WRIST WATCH GUARD Filed Jan. 29, 1962 INVENTOR GEORGE H. JUST BY MJZZZ ATTORNEY United States Patent 3,111,247 WRIST WATCH GUA George H. Just, Rte. 2, Box 286, Laurel, Md. Filed Jan. 29, 1962, Sex. No. 169,294 1 Claim. (Cl. 224-4) This invention relates to a simple watch guard against damages due to the accumulation of moisture on the back of a wrist watch where it is in contact with the wrist.

Many wrist watches have a short lifetime primarily due to the almost constant accumulation of perspiration on the wrist under and around the back of the watch, especially in the summer time and in damp weather. Some of the moisture follows the surface of the watch casing into cracks or joints between the casing parts and finds its way into the works, where it can do much damage.

It is not uncommon, in hot humid weather, to notice a condensation on the inside of your wrist watch, which testifies to the presence of the moisture inside the watch, even if the joints between the parts of the casing appear to be water tight.

The object of the present invention is to provide simple means for holding the back of your wrist watch out of contact with your wrist when worn with any pin-mounted wristband or strap.

A further object is to provide a strip of stiff material having ends mountable over the pin mountings on which the ends of a wrist band or strap are mounted, and having an intermediate portion formed to hold the watch spaced from the wrist a greater distance than the thickness of said strip, whereby to facilitate keeping the back of the watch dry even if the wrist is wet.

Other and more specific objects will become apparent in the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment of the present invention, as illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of one form of the invention,

FIG. 2 is a side elevational view of a common type of wrist watch showing portions of a strap and the above form of the invention mounted in place,

FIG. 3 is a plan view of the watch as shown in FIG. 2, and

FIGS. 4 and 5 are plan and sectional views, respectively, as indicated, of a modified form of the invention.

The strip may be made in many different forms and of different suitable preferable non-magnetic materials. As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, it may be made of metal, such as silver, gold, stainless steel, or any one of a number of suitable plastics. It may be substantially centrally bent upwardly to rest against the back of the watch 8 along substantially a line contact at 10, the two ends 12 having flaps 14 cut out and bent to fit under the pinned ends of the strap 16, the ends 12 being bent upwardly and over said pinned ends to hold the strip firmly in place on the watch, and to provide a suitable spacing between the wrist and the back of the watch when worn on the wrist, the wrist coming in contact with the strip only at its depressed portions 18.

The form shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 is indicated to ice be of plastic material, but it may be made of any suitable preferably nonmagnetic materials. It is simple and easy to form, being just a plain strip bent similarly to that shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, but having no flaps cut out from its ends 20. This strip just like the first form, may be readily mounted on the watch, by placing one end 22 over one of the pinned ends of the strap 16, then removing the other pinned end from the watch 8 to permit the swinging of other end 22 of the strip into place, and then replacing said other pinned end on the watch to hold the strip in contact with the back of the watch at 24. The depressed portions 26 of the strip will then rest on the wrist when the watch is worn thereon, and the watch will be held away from contact with the wrist.

To accommodate the slight variation in distances between the pins 28 in different watches, the guard strip could be made of springy or bendable material to permit the ends 12 or 22 to be bent more toward each other for shorter distances. This type of material would also permit the bending of the strip at 10 to provide a good firm fit on watches in which it may be necessary to change the dihedral angle formed by the strip at 10 or 24, in mounting the strip on a watch, in accordance with the dihedral angle formed at the corresponding line contact on the back of the watch by planes passing through each of the axes of the two pins 28 of said watch. Obviously, this accommodation bending is not sharp but is distributed over the curves in the bends of the original conformation of the strip, as illustrated in the several dotted outlines at one end of the strip shown in FIG. 1.

The exposed portions of the ends 12 or 22, when the strip is mounted on the watch, may be suitably decorated or inscribed with decorative designs or initials, if desired, in order to enhance the design or appearance of the watch, by matching materials, colorings or designs of such decorations with those of the watch.

Many other obvious modifications in the form and details of this invention may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, as defined in the appended claim.

What is claimed is:

A wrist watch guard clip comprising a substantially flat strip of nonmagnetic material adapted for mounting between the watch and the wrist, said strip being corrugated to hold the watch away from the wrist providing air venting spaces therebetween, said strip having upturned ears at its ends adapted for cooperation with the wrist band fastening pins to the watch, to clip said strip to the back of the watch, said ears being adapted for passing up through the spaces between the band fastening pins and the watch casing, and having ends curved over the top of said band fastenings, said ears having cut-out flaps extended under said band fastenings.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,381,018 Rogers June 7, 1921 2,101,690 Sauer Dec. 7, 1937 FOREIGN PATENTS 525,406 Great Britain Aug. 28, 1940 766,117 Great Britain Jan. 16, 1957 

